The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-06-10
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Mr.. Ruskin has denied the rumor:
that he has 'sgone over to Rome
There is village in Wales with a
name containing seventy-two letters
and twenty-five syllables.
The manuscript of Burns poem,
1.-The Whistle, has recently been pur-
chased for e283 by Lord Rosebery.
Mr.. Abel of the Baltimore Sun,
with twenty millions or more at his
back, is said to be the richest news
paper man in the world.
Mrs. Gladstone nearly always ac-
companies her husband to the House
of Commons, and she never fails to
wrap a stout comforter around his
neck when he leaves for home.
Judge McCrea, of Wilmington, N.
c., has a gift of a rare eloquence.
When only six years old he was lifted
upon table at Fayetteville to make a
speech of welcome to La Fayette, for
whom the town was named.
Twenty-Five members of the Illinois
Woman's Press Association are en-
gagged in editorial work, and many
more are working as correspondents
and reporters. At least twenty books
have been published by the members
of this association during the past year.
Indianapolis journal.
Mrs. Grant has just received from
Charles L. Webster a check for $685.
384. SO as additional profits on the sale
of General Grants Memoirs" She
has thus received to date total of
1894, 1888. The financial success of
Grants book IS unprecedented in the
history of literature. Chicago Tribune.
The slang word ''bounce' is now
numbered among the verbs found in
the English dictionaries. In the new
English dictionary under the word
"bounce" appears the following defini-
ton and illustration;
"8. trans. To discharge suddenly from EN-.
ployment.
''U. S. [Of uncertain origin
1884, Boston (Mass) JrnI., Oct: Speaker
CdrISIc mas bounced MS cl6rk. MT. Nelson,
telling tales out of school,"
Field Marshal Archduke Albert OF
Austria, who has just completed his
sixtieth year of military service, is a
familiar figure to all the Viennese He
is to be seen daily in the streets, at the
races, at reviews, at the opera, every
where, and is always greeted as a pop
ular favorite. He is short in stature,
has snow-white hair and whiskers,
wears spectacles, and has a thoroughly
jolly expression of countenance.
John Swinton, who was reduced
from comparative opulence to poverty
by his advocacy of the labor cause, and
for whose benefit it was proposed to
raise fund by popular subscription,
writes to the New York San: ''Be SO
good as to squelch the whole thing at
once. On my own account, and by
myself, l shall do all the work re-
quired of me in this life; and [ am
happy to say that | can at any time
get all the necessary means for it by
conjuring with my magic staff in the
jocund realms of literature. -
1t is said that when Alexander
Mitchell was banker in Milwaukee
there was once run on his bank. On
the second day of the run an old
Scotchman entered the bank, covered
with mud, and carrying a pair of
saddlebags. He could not gain access
to Mr. Mitchell o1faccount of the crowd,
but he shouted to him, holding up the
saddlebags: "Aleck, mon, heard We
bod room on yer bank, and | bring
ye all have, mon-$2,000 in gold. :"
The crowd contemplated the old
Scotchman for a moment, and then be-
gan to drop out of the line, and in less
than an hour the run had ceased. NJ
Y. Sun.